Lizz and I were invited to a party just down the road from where we’re moving in the next couple of weeks. JonP is friends with a girl called Katy who lives at number 31 (we’re moving into number 37). We’ve met her a few times and we all seem to get on well enough. So that’s good. Hopefully we’ll be good friends and neighbours in a short amount of time.

Dave, JonP, and Danny Simanis were there too, as well as a whole bunch of people I didn’t know. It was cool to get to know a whole bunch of people.

There was a cool fire in the back garden which is where everyone hung out. It really was nice.

At 20:56 I decided I needed to go to a shop. I ran up the road, just over a quarter of a mile. I arrived at the shop at 21:01, the sign on the door said that the shop closes at 21:00. There’s absolutely no way that it had just been closed though. It must have been at least 5 minutes. I decided to run to the other shop, but that one was closed too. It was a complete waste of time. Oh well. My legs ache from all the running now.

Today Dave came over and Lizz cooked a fantastic Sunday dinner. It was really nice, so now she’s got to cook me one every weekend. 😉

Yesterday Lizz and I went to Sutton with Lizz’s brother Peter. He was going to buy an 80GB iPod that was advertised in The Chad for £85. Peter and I went into the house (which was covered in fake butterflies) and had a look at it. It’s a 6th generation iPod classic. It’s in absolute mint condition, including the headphones and charger cable.

We went in with the intention of haggling them down to something like £60. The man we spoke to told us how he’d refused to sell it to one lady because she offered him £80. So, because everything was absolutely perfect Peter offered the £85 asked for and the man was very pleased. So pleased that he included a docking station with speakers and a remote for free! Not a bad deal at all. 🙂

I got a message from Rick today saying he’s got a job at E-On starting near the end of September, which is great. A couple of minutes later I got a message from my mum saying that she got a job doing some sewing at a shop in town, which is absolutely fantastic. I really think she might stick to this job. I hope she does. It’ll do her a lot of good.

So yeah, good news all round there.

Lizz is sorting out the tax for her car, which is going quite badly, but shouldn’t be too bad soon.

That’s pretty much the state of things. 🙂

Here are a couple of videos from YouTube that Dave recorded of me making and using a smoke bomb.

I was just reading a story on Reuters about the supposed Bigfoot discovery when I noticed the list of reporters at the end included a man named Peter Henderson.

Bigfoot… Henderson… Anyone else make the connection?

Harry And The Hendersons is a show from the early 1990s that I remember watching quite a few times.

At first I thought it could be some sort of a prank by some Retuers writers (heh, that sounds funny), but then I did a quick Google search and found Peter Henderson’s blog on the Reuters website. So fair enough, just another one of those funny little coincidences. 🙂

College has agreed to fully fund my attendance of the HNC in Computing. So in September I’ll begin a 2-year course. With any luck I’ll be able to finish a bit before then. I might even be able to get some accreditation for prior learning and skip a unit or two. If not then I don’t think there’ll be anything too difficult on the course anyway.

There go all my Tuesday evenings!